Aye, no man yet since the origin of things.
The Alpha, Omega, the First, Last and Whole,
Who, from the small first, had foreseen the vast goal,
He only knows now the beginning of things.
But will He not somewhere permit me to know,
If I go on with Him in the eternal flow,
The satisfying truth of the first of all things?
THE END OF THINGS
The aim of the heavens, the end of the earth—